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What Are The Pros And Cons Of The Giver

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The most famous and disturbing children fiction by Lois Lowry refers to The Giver.
A futuristic society life present before the reader. In this society, community only allow sameness of people to live. The fiction tells the story of a boy named Jonas who happened at the age of twelve. There were no pains, no conflict, and all the people are unemotional in the community where Jonas lived. Through deliberate assimilation, Jonas was chosen to take over the role of "memory receiver", accepting all of the previous memories of humans to be used when needed. When Jonas acquired these memories from his predecessor, he found that the community he lived in was extremely shallow and closed. The war will never happen, peace always belongs to the society. …show more content…

Therefore, I have summarized the advantages and disadvantages about the rules and laws, professions and families of the society. Points are as follows.
The legal system is convenient and efficient but ruthless even inhumane. There is surveillance in every corner of the community, and it can not be closed. There will be a broadcast through the community, which will inform the community of what has happened and ask the culprits to report somewhere. As long as everyone violates the regulations more than three times, it should mean that the circumstances are more serious, and the people who admit their mistakes and poor attitudes are directly released. For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. I think the good thing is that the strict social law is comprehensive and methodical, convenient and efficient. People living under surveillance, every move is transparent.. Once someone breaks the rules, It will be notified on the radio. Therefore, there is no crime, no danger in society. As the book says:Then all of the citizens had been ordered to go into the nearest building and stay there. IMMEDIATELY, the rasping voice

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